Student loans have become a primary tool of enslavement. One should not expect the enslavers to be far away.
And by "waste of oxygen consumption," I don't mean it's okay for the DOE to engage in door-kicking human safaris. I mean, throw the book at 'em in court. But they ain't that dangerous to apprehend.
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Gonna have to 'splayn that one, please.
Loans are a voluntary process. No one compels anyone to get them. It's 100% possible to go to community college for 2 years and pay cash rather than get loans, then 2 years at your local State school and get your BA, also paying cash. Most community colleges around here cost about $2000 per semester for a typical class load, plus books. Not that big of a deal. ASU is incredibly inexpensive for a 4 year university, for AZ residents. It's about $4800 per semester. That might be a bit harder to pay cash for.... but no one said every student has to have a $125/month cell phone plan and a $300/month payment on a nice car.
I had nearly $30,000 in school loans when I graduated... but I went to one of the more expensive colleges in the Pacific Northwest. I maxed out my unsubsidized Stafford loans, and got 1 Perkins loan on top of that.
I'm now down to about $12,500 left. And should be done with that pretty quickly at the $600/month I'm paying towards it.
Anyone that welches on school loans is a waste of oxygen consumption, as far as I'm concerned. That's just low.
ETA: And by "waste of oxygen consumption," I don't mean it's okay for the DOE to engage in door-kicking human safaris. I mean, throw the book at 'em in court. But they ain't that dangerous to apprehend.
That you can't escape a student loan even by bankruptcy underscores the "enslavement" point I was making.
Education Department says it doesn’t send SWAT teams after loan defaulters
Education Department says it doesn’t send SWAT teams after loan defaulters
About 8.9 percent of all federal loan recipients (about 330,000 people) defaulted between 2008 and 2010, the highest percentage in more than a decade.
No, they send them after failed white-collar criminals who can't cover their tracks and got enticed into a stupid crime while aged somewhere between 18 and 25.
This demographic tends to be young, relatively stupid or naive, and have young children and spouses. They also tend to NOT be armed (liberal college bias is strong) and enjoy arguments.
They'll ANSWER THE FRACKING DOOR IF YOU KNOCK.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door
I'm getting a 404 on this link.
He said the Office of the Inspector General "conducts about 30-35 search warrants a year on issues such as bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds."
the variety of scams being run is quite artful. profitable tooBut not smart.
supported by?
| Estimated repayment rates by institution - FY 2009 | |
| Institution | Estimated repayment rate |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | 80% |
| UC BERKELEY | 73% |
| UC RIVERSIDE | 65% |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | 62% |
| MILLS COLLEGE | 59% |
| CSU LOS ANGELES | 55% |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | 54% |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO | 47% |
| UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX | 44% |
| DEVRY UNIVERSITY | 38% |
| LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE | 37% |
| ARGOSY UNIVERSITY - ORANGE COUNTY | 36% |
| KAPLAN UNIVERSITY | 27% |
| Source: U.S. Department of Education |
They've since pulled the article. There are updates. Original story:
http://centralstockton.news10.net/news/community/dept-education-breaks-down-stockton-mans-door/72578
Also, from C&SD's link:
Any of those crimes seem to necessitate a no-knock SWAT raid on a home where the intended subject doesn't live?
I wasn't arguing that. The notion of the DoE having a SWAT team is something I'd expect in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
The notion of the DoE having a SWAT team is something I'd expect in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
I completely agree.
I don't see a legitimate need for agencies like the DOE, USDA, and so forth to have SWAT teams or even gun toting agents when you know, there are whole federal agencies dedicated to LE. Such as the FBI. Got a problem that needs armed popo for a federal crime? Call the local FBI office.
where hubby says she doesn't live
the variety of scams being run is quite artful. profitable too
was it a no knock? or are all of them no knocks in your minds eye?Well, it isn't no-knock if they knock as they are tearing down the door.
The big picture is that education is Big Business now...or Big Ed. Big Ed is no different from the entire public sector union coalition that wants to control America.
Here's a story on how university administrators will shortly outnumber faculty at our institutions of learning:
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/06/university-administrators-will.html
I don't see a legitimate need for agencies like the DOE, USDA, and so forth to have SWAT teams or even gun toting agents when you know, there are whole federal agencies dedicated to LE. Such as the FBI. Got a problem that needs armed popo for a federal crime? Call the local FBI office.
Longeyes... I have to ask. Have you attended graduate school?
More than one. But, thankfully, not recently.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141108/2/Questions-surround-feds-raid-of-Stockton-home
Do you see a knock?
its an interesting cult here. specialty is financial scams. at one time they specialized in getting a member a job in a bank then looting it
they've branched out.
have a history of killing folks
including young kids
wanna see the missing 40 pages of affidavit and warrant see if they are members
In my experience, universities are always - no matter the amount of 'administrators' are de-facto run by their professors. Not individual professors, but academics as a class. This is the inner cause of most if not all problems in academia.
Let's assume here that the guy in the house is Tony Montana, and he met them at the door with an M203.
That doesn't justify the DEPARTMENT OF GORRAM EDUCATION getting a tac team. If the student loan skippers ;/ are THAT damn bad, call the FBI. Every damn federal department doesn't need a SWAT team and the toys that go with them.
And why am I not surprised that you're already painting the guy whose ex-wife the DOE is after as a baby-killer. I swear to god you never met a jack-boot you didn'tlicklike.
Let's assume here that the guy in the house is Tony Montana, and he met them at the door with an M203.
That doesn't justify the DEPARTMENT OF GORRAM EDUCATION getting a tac team. If the student loan skippers ;/ are THAT damn bad, call the FBI. Every damn federal department doesn't need a SWAT team and the toys that go with them.
And why am I not surprised that you're already painting the guy whose ex-wife the DOE is after as a baby-killer. I swear to god you never met a jack-boot you didn'tlicklike.
I think that used to be the case, and maybe where you are it still is, but I think American universities have now become one more branch of social welfare filigreed with mythological trappings about education and democracy. How much real learning gets done is questionable; ditto how much actual preparation for society. Absolutely staggering amounts of money, much of it public, are channeled through the education machine with increasingly dubious results. (The hard sciences and engineering remain an endangered oasis.)
once upon a time i was greatly a joe fan. that faded upon closer examination. i also have seen real police gone wild and often find folks blow their "incidents" outa proportion. and even when they do the zomg choir gathers to sing hallelujahsPlease keep it up. I may not agree with you all the time (or much =D ), but we don't need to start doing the echo chamber on these threads either.
The purpose of the History department is certainly not to 'prepare' anyone for 'society'. We cannot be called out as having failed as this was never our goal.